I guess I'll do a quick shortened prose version of the scene I'm giving a theme to:

The guns roared as Nikola ducked next to a short wall. He heard the bullets pound against his cover, but he had eyes only for the cruiser rising into the night—with her on it. There was a break in the firing. He stood up, drew his weapon deftly, and began firing—

~*~

—bullets at my soldiers will really help your little revolution, darling?" She said, her back turned to him. Her nightgown was amazing. He hated her, so much. She was beautiful, gorgeous; if there was a God, he had personally forged her with great care.

He wanted to tear it—her—down, if only for the challenge.

She turned, and he remained motionless—apathetic—as she made her way toward him. "But love, I know that you know it's useless. I know that you know that I will win."

Her feet made no sound as she stepped up to him and pushed his chin up, ever-so-slightly, with her index finger.

"I know that you know that we were nothing but means to an end for each other; our 'love' was sin, and I must say, your sin tastes good."

Nikola said nothing, but he wanted to grab her little neck, squeezing until she turned purple as he would lift her off the ground...

...he glared at her, though she could not see his eyes.

"You didn't really ever think you had a chance, did you honey? That my interest in you was ever more than a primal urge toownyou?"

"No."

"Then why are you here? Still beholden to my charms, even if you know you'll never have me again?"

"Darling." he began; what she heard was "you bitch." "If I really was here for that, we would have consummated our mutual hatred."

He continued. "No, I'm not here for that. I'm here to end you. Finally."

She smiled—a smile that could kill the Devil himself—

~*~

—Nikola ducked and moved forward as the first soldier aimed too high, sending a rifle round into the ceiling. He grabbed the mans neck and snapped his wrist sideways, dispatching him in an instant. Then he shoved him forward, knocking the other two in the doorway backwards as he drew his weapon.

The Herald in Forgotten Lore, being an expy of Nyarlathotep, is supposed to be accompanied by flute-playing Servitors that play his background music (that is taken straight from one of Nyarlathotep's canonical forms), so he actually has one in-universe. I'm not really sure what exactly it should sounds like, but it's supposed to be a sharp, whining sound that makes peoples ears hurt. For some reason I imagine it being set to the tune of "Prince Ali" from Disney's Aladdin, only sped up and at much higher pitch.

Zaran's father (the Overlord) is another sort-of villanous character (he ends up helping the protagonists in the end, but only because they share a common enemy) that would definetly have his own background music. In his case it would be something military-themed. Probably this Soviet artillerist march, but with altered lyrics. It sounds awesome, and would fit the fact thta for some reason I imagine the Netherwold stuff having Russian-ish theme music.

Absolutely. That's why I usually think in terms of instrumental accompaniment, myself. There are exceptions, though, when both are astonishingly appropriate. Which is part of why I love Swans: Music and lyrics dually appropriate for all kinds of scary!

I could give a song for every one of my chapters/major plot points, but those are some of my favorite. And, I should note for anne () that I pick songs for things like this based on both lyrics and tempo/beat/etc. So there.

Music can be used to set whatever mood you like. It helps to know what sort of mood you want to set, and just saying what's happening doesn't offer much information about what you want that scene to mean to the viewer.

It's beautiful and so full of deep imagery that it doesn't surprise me to find that it has gone WAY over your head

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